My Student Loan Balances Over Time [OC]

Posted by subpar_orchid

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  1. Source: I downloaded transaction history from my loan servicers and manually copied transactions when a download was unavailable. I had to request transaction and rate history be sent to me from past loan servicers. I specifically had to request the history to include the remaining principal after each payment from a few servicers.

    Tools: Excel and Python.

    The private interest rates I had were unreasonably high (looking at you Sallie Mae). I refinanced twice so far for lower interest rates.

    Aggressively paying these off since I got my first full-time job following graduation. I hope to have them gone in the next 6 months or so.

    Edit: These are all undergraduate loans. Graduate school was July 2017 – Dec 2019. I had tuition funded by my department. Total cost for grad school was $5,700 and it was paid out of pocket.

  2. I like this figure. An idea for another lens is to attach the interest rate to the color with shading

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